Glasgow's gangland wars exposed as year of murder and mayhem on streets charted

Several people have been killed in Glasgow in the past year as gangsters take out victims with guns, knives and other weapons (Image: Universal News/Daily Record/PA)

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In March, William Barclay was ambushed and shot at in Dykemuir Street, Springburn.

The bullet missed but Barclay was chased by the men and left in a serious condition after being attacked with blades.

Dykemuir Street was again the scene of a brutal attack on November 30.

Four men armed with blades seriously injured a 38-year-old man.

The attack was linked to two others that weekend on consecutive days – one in nearby Red Road on Saturday, December 1, the other in Blackhill on December 2.

Kenny Reilly, 29, was shot dead while sitting in the passenger seat of a BMW car at traffic lights in Maryhill on April 16. He had accepted a lift from the woman driver, who was unhurt in the attack.

The gunman pulled up alongside the BMW in a Ford people carrier as it waited at a red light at the junction of Bilsland Drive and Maryhill Road, before shooting him in the head.

The getaway car was later found burnt out a mile-and-a-half away in Craigieburn Gardens.

Kenny Reilly was shot in the head by a masked gunman in Maryhill (Image: Universal News (Europe))

Reilly was a friend of Euan “EJ” Johnston, who was also shot dead at the wheel of his car as he sat at lights on Glasgow’s Pollokshields in November 2016.

Billyjoe Bates, 28, was beaten to death in Ashgill Road, Milton, on November 17. He is a relative of murdered gangster Billy Bates whose body was discovered inside an oil drum in the River Clyde in 2007.

Bates Snr and Derek “Deco” Ferguson were wanted for questioning by police over the fatal shooting of barman Thomas Cameron in ­Auchinairn, near Bishopbriggs.

The crime scene of a shooting on Cadoc Street in Cambuslang (Image: Daily Record)

Gary More, 32, was blasted to death outside his home in Gartness Road in Airdrie on September 6. His death has been linked to a Glasgow gangland feud and the Skoda used to carry out the hit was found torched on the outskirts of the north of Glasgow.

In June, an unnamed man was stabbed repeatedly by a gang of men whose Audi blocked him in as he sat in a van in Torrance, north of the city, before fleeing to the nearby Asda store in Bishopbriggs.

Billyjoe Bates was beaten to death on November 17 (Image: PA)

The bloodshed has spilled over from the traditional ­territories of rival factions in the north of the city.

The east end has also seen its fair share.

In April, a house was shot at in Millroad Drive, Calton, in the east end.

Earlier that month, the same street was the scene of an incident in which Scott Campbell was run over and stabbed.

In September, Robert McCann was shot in the head when two men burst into his home in Cuthelton Terrace, Parkhead.

Gary More was declared dead at the scene after the shooting in Airdrie (Image: Internet Unknown)

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Brian McGloin was shot twice in the chest and once in the leg when two would-be assassins forced their way into his home in Wellshot Road, ­Shettleston, on October 13. Police were investigating whether the two ­incidents were linked.

In the west of the city, Darren Sinclair was murdered in Drumchapel on November 6.

Darren Sinclair was killed after he was run over and attacked with a pole and machete (Image: Daily Record)

He had survived a previous murder bid earlier this year in February when he was run over by a car and ­repeatedly hit with a machete and a pole to the head and body. Two men were due to stand trial for the attack.

Christopher Beaton, 27, was shot in Kingsway Court, Scotstoun, in May. Four men are waiting to stand trial in connection with the murder bid.

On the south side of the river, dad-of-three Owen Hassan, 30, was murdered in a knife attack outside his mum’s pub the Old Stag Inn, ­Pollokshaws, on November 7.

Cambuslang Rangers manager Paul McColl was shot in Cambuslang on February 21.

Owen Hassan was murdered after he was attacked outside his mum's pub (Image: Daily Record)

He managed to make it to the Kirkhill Bar and raise the alarm. A burnt out Ford Focus car was later discovered in Turnlaw Road.

Convicted drug dealer Scott Bennett, 37, a dog breeder who was being ­investigated by trading standards, was shot outside a vet’s in Rutherglen on December 3.